To:G. Y. ZINOVIEV

Written:Written on June 11, 1921Published:Published in full in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

      First published in part on October 4, 1931 inPravdaNo. 274.

      Sent to Petrograd.

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      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeZinoviev

ComradeZinoviev:

Ihave just read Kuusinen’s theses and one-half of the
article (the report),

Ihave returned them to him with my
remarks.[2]

Ido insist that heandhealone((i.e., not Béla Kun))
should be allowed to give a report at this congress without
fail.

Thisis necessary.

Heknows andthinks(was sehr selten ist unter den
Revolutionären[1]).

Whatneeds to be done right away is to findoneGerman,
a real one, and give him strict instructions

tomake stylistic corrections at once,

anddictate the corrected text to a typist.

Andat the congress read out for Kuusinen his article–
report (tell Kuusinen to complete the second half within
three days).

TheGerman will read it out well. The benefit will be
enormous.[3]

Thequestion will beposed: and this will be very much
more than enough for a start.

Greetings,Lenin

P.S.You have not returned to me the copy of my letter to
Levi.[4]Do so without fail.If you don’t, I will not makeup.

[1]Whichis a great rarity among revolutionaries.—Ed.

[2]Areference to Lenin’s talk with Y. M. Yurovsky on May 16,    

1921. See also Note 155.

[3]Thereport on the organisational question was read out at the    

Third Comintern Congress by Wilhelm Koenen, a member of          

the United Communist Party of Germany, on July 10, 1921.

[4]Areference to Lenin’s letter to Clara Zetkin and Paul Levi of    

April 16, 1921 (see this volume, Document 129).